Traveling Conceptualizations : A cognitive and anthropological linguistic study of Jamaican PDF
by Hollington Andrea Hollington
Part of the Culture and Language Use series
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Traveling Conceptualizations is a monograph which is concerned with African cultural conceptualizations in Jamaican. It contributes to the study of Transatlantic relations between Africa and Jamaica, and in particular to the understanding of African influences in Jamaican linguistic practices. The book constitutes a first study of these phenomena from a cognitive-linguistic perspective and investigates traveling conceptualizations at the intersection of language, culture and cognition. The author explores Jamaican linguistic practices in different domains namely conceptualizations involving parts of the (human) body, conceptualizations of events, roles and relations underlying serial verb constructions, and conceptualizations of kinship and names. The study can be regarded as an innovative contribution as it looks not only at linguistic expressions on the surface but discusses the underlying cultural and cognitive basis of semantic structures. The study thus aims at making African-Jamaican connections on the conceptual level visible and also discusses notions of consciousness, agency and emblematicity.
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- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:20/08/2015
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- ISBN:9789027268402
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:266 pages
- Publisher:John Benjamins Publishing Company
- Publication Date:20/08/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9789027268402